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...Staff writer Nayeli E. Rodriguez can be reached at nrodrig@fas.harvard.edu...
...much do you hate the New York Yankees? Emilio H. Rodriguez, TAMPA...
...film could even have a happy ending of sorts. "I'm still married to my crazy husband [and he to his first wife]," says Rodriguez. "That's a miracle of God in itself. I don't know what I'd do without him. He's like Fred Flintstone with a rocket launcher. We'll get the money. Dammit, money or no, I'm going to do this." Never get in the way of a woman who travels with scissors...
...wrote this book because I didn't want to forget these women's stories," says Rodriguez from Dubai, en route to promotion tours in the U.S. and Britain. She's kept in touch with many of them and says 90% of her 185 former students have found jobs in the beauty business. On average, she estimates, they have raised their family incomes by 400%. And the school? "We just reopened," she says. "A new class started two days ago." Rodriguez now holds lessons in a rented mansion, using proceeds from her adjacent spa, coffeehouse and guesthouse. Though women still apply...
...book tour will no doubt help, and Rodriguez is a made-for-TV charmer. "My hair was spiked and blonde when I arrived, then red, then bright red, then bright blond, then black, then maroon," she says. "I just got it done in Dubai, and now it's long and red." Rodriguez is counting on a new website (www.kabulbeautyschool.com) to bring in donations, as well as on "cutathons" at a handful of Paul Mitchell salons, which will offer $5 haircuts with proceeds going to the Kabul Beauty School. It should also help that Columbia Pictures just bought movie rights...